Power failure: Nigeria’s crude prices may crash further this week
Prices of Nigeria’s crude grades may crash further downwards this week due to persistent power failure at the export facility,…
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Estimated billing to be criminalized – Reps
By Elizabeth UwanduThe outcry by Nigerians over outrageous estimated billing system by the Electricity Distribution Companies…
SERAP responds to Fashola’s ‘no corrupt’ electricity contractor
Ngozi EgenukaSocio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has said that attempts to limit disclosure of…
TCN commissions first offshore substation
By Elizabeth Uwandu
The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, yesterday, commissioned its first offshore substation in Ilashe…
Tesla Set for Nigerian Market
Pita Ochai
TESLA, a United States electric car maker and clean-energy company will introduce batteries that can power homes and…
Hope for renewable energy as AfDB approves $25m equity investment
The huge potential for renewable energy in the country is mostly untapped. All around the country, there are enormous potentials…
Fashola says Discos must match govt’s N72bn expansion fund
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has provided more insight on the Federal Government’s N72…
Fashola calls for prosecution, jail of power sector vandals
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has called not just for the arrest, but prosecution and jailing of…
Kaduna Electric takes energy efficiency campaign to secondary schools
Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company has commenced knowledge sharing campaigns through formation of Energy Conservation Clubs…
FG targets 30 per cent in renewable energy mix by 2030 —Fashola
In a bid to diversify its energy sources and optimise other assets for power production, Nigeria has set a target of…
Nigeria facing energy trilemma – Kachikwu
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... It is not attractive remaining extractive
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu has said…
Micro-grids, solution to Nigeria’s power challenges -Eaton
Nigeria cannot overcome its insufficient electricity supply unless she embraces micro-grid solution, Senior Application Leader,…
Wind, Solar Are Now The Cheapest Sources Of Power Generation
Thanks to falling costs, unsubsidized onshore wind and solar have become the cheapest sources of electricity generation in nearly…
Discos Huge Indebtedness Stifling GENCOs, APGC cries out
Oge ObiThe Association of Power Generation Companies (APGC) has said that discos continuous failure in their monthly…
Limited Access to Electricity worsening Poverty Situation in Nigeria – NAEE
Oge ObiThe Nigeria Association for Energy Economics (NAEE) has said that citizens' low access to electricity has worsened the…
Nationwide Blackout Looms as DSS Allegedly Aids Seizure of TCN’s Facility
Thisday newspaper has reported that national electricity supplies may witness another round of disruptions from the transmission…
Problems of electricity can’t be solved by magic – Fashola
Oge ObiThe Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has said that the problems of electricity in the…
In our expansion, we have brought local content to bear – Skipper
Power Nigeria Sponsorship is a Way of giving back to the country
Oge ObiThe 2018 Power Nigerian exhibition and conference…
Eko DISCO moves to eradicate “Crazy Bills”
Eko Electricity Distribution Company stated on thursday that a project to improve the company’s estimated billing system was on…
New 100,000bpd Brownfield Refinery for Port Harcourt, Warri – Baru
As part of its refinery collocation initiative designed to boost local refining capacity to end the era of petroleum products…
NNPC, Seplat Execute Agreements to Deliver 3.4bscfd of Gas by 2020
As part of efforts to bridge the projected medium-term gas supply gap expected by 2020, the Nigerian National Petroleum…
Cashless: Eko Disco to eliminate use of cash payment
The Management of Eko Electricity Distribution Company Plc (EKEDC), has urged customers to embrace modern electronic payment for…
Electricity: Customer eligibility policy beginning to yield result, says Fashola
Hon. Minister of Power, Works & Housing, Mr Babatunde
Fashola,SAN (middle),Minister of State, Surv. Suleiman Zarma…
FG says it isn’t afraid of Discos’ threat to resell firms
The Federal Government is not frightened by the threats made by power distribution companies to quit the power sector and resell…
Kaduna DisCo says security issues affecting its business
The Chairman, Board of Directors of Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company, Alhaji Yusuf Hamisu Abubakar has said the security…
Abuja Disco set to deploy 222,728 pre-paid meters to customers
The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), is to begin the deployment of 222,728 meters valued about N10 billion for…
“Eligible Customer” policy will raise tariff by 14% – Discos
The Eligible Customer policy introduced by the Federal Government in the power sector will lead to a 14 per cent increase in the…
Nigeria loses 4,379MW to distribution, gas constraints – ISO
Nigeria lost 4,379 megawatts (MW) capacity of electricity on Saturday. This was partly due to distribution constraints and…
Power Ministry to begin payment of MDAs’ electricity bills
To ensure all its Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) do not accumulate more debt from electricity supplied to them but…
Nigeria’s DisCos illiquid as electricity attracts major investments globally
Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos), which interface with end-users, occupy a critical position in Nigeria’s power…
Jos Disco restores power to Bauchi communities affected by windstorm
Residents of some communities in Bauchi State that were thrown into darkness following the wild windstorm that caused colossal…
Nigeria’s power sector loses N300bn in 7 months – VP’s Office
Nigeria’s power sector in seven months of 2018 has lost N300 billion due to insufficient gas supply, distribution and transmission…
‘70% of revenue losses come from unmetered consumers’ – AEDC, ANED
The highest amount of revenue losses in Nigeria’s power sector come from areas that have high concentration of unmetered…
‘MAPs’ policy will bridge Nigeria’s metering gap’ – Meter company
The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Momas Electricity Meters Manufacturing Company Limited (MEMMCOL), Kola Balogun,…
Stakeholders hopeful new tariffs in NERC’s amended MYTO 2015 can solve power sector issues
As Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) continues to come up with different strategies to revamp the Nigerian power…
BEDC says grid highly unstable, signs MoU with IPPs, mini-grid providers
The Benin Electricity Distribution Company Plc has described the nation’s power grid as highly unstable, with over 2,000 outages…
Nigeria’s sovereign wealth agency transfers $417.5m to NBET
The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) on Thursday said it paid about $417.46 million to the country’s electricity bulk…
Nigeria’s power grid collapsed twice in June, July
Nigeria’s electricity grid is still witnessing system collapse as it recorded total failure twice in the last two months.…
Schneider Electric’s Digital Solutions set to Increase Profitability and Optimise Costs for Oil…
Schneider Electric, the foremost innovator and specialist in energy management solutions has re-affirmed its commitment to…
The Axxela Effect:
“We need to get Gas to all nooks and crannies of Nigeria to bring about an economic re- awakening” - OsunsanyaBolaji…